Friday, March 25, 2016

"Two months ago, Stephen Hawking warned humanity that its days may be numbered:
the physicist was among over 1,000 artificial intelligence experts who
signed an open letter about the weaponization of robots and the ongoing 'military artificial intelligence arms race.' "Overnight we got a vivid example of just how quickly 'artificial
intelligence' can spiral out of control when Microsoft's AI-powered
Twitter chat robot, Tay, became a racist, misogynist, Obama-hating,
antisemitic, incest and genocide-promoting psychopath when released into
the wild. "For those unfamiliar, Tay is, or rather was, an A.I. project built by
the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams, in an effort to
conduct research on conversational understanding. It was meant to be a
bot anyone can talk to online. The company described the bot as 'Microsoft’s A.I. fam the internet that’s got zero chill!.'"Microsoft initially created 'Tay' in an effort to improve the customer service on its voice recognition software. According to MarketWatch, 'she' was intended to tweet 'like a teen girl' and was designed to 'engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online
through casual and playful conversation.' "The chat algo is able to perform a number of tasks, like telling
users jokes, or offering up a comment on a picture you send her, for
example. But she’s also designed to personalize her interactions with
users, while answering questions or even mirroring users’ statements
back to them. "This is where things quickly turned south. "As Twitter users quickly came to understand, Tay would often repeat
back racist tweets with her own commentary. Where things got even more
uncomfortable is that, as TechCrunch reports,
Tay’s responses were developed by a staff that included improvisational
comedians. That means even as she was tweeting out offensive racial
slurs, she seemed to do so with abandon and nonchalance.

I think this is utterly hilarious. Read the rest of the article and see more of Tay's comments. They should have put a white robe and hood on Tay. Big embarrassment for Microsoft. How would you like a bunch of armed robots roaming around with Tay's personality? Terminator, here we come.

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Think about the total garbage that is posted online. Curious what an I.A would say if it grew up only on our local paper, and the comments, there.... then, let's add in some Facebook posts for good measure. Lots of haters running wild on the super-highway.

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